ADAMH Stats

• Each year, we invest more than $120 million in treatment and $7 million in prevention services.
• Each year, we fund treatment for more than 39,000 Franklin County residents including:
  • More than 30,000 people who received Mental Health treatment
  • More than 10,000 people who received Substance Abuse treatment
  • More than 11,000 youth
• Each year, we fund prevention programs for more than 103,500 adults and children.

ADAMH Results

Mental Health - recent ADAMH studies show that:

• With Treatment, 80% of adults with Severe Mental Illness showed positive improvement.
• ADAMH treatment services significantly improve:
  • Overall behavioral health
  • Work skills attainment
  • Social Behaviors
  • Level of functioning
  • Reduction of symptoms
• 41% of clients were able to obtain or maintain employment following treatment.
• 58% of consumers lived in their own home after one year of treatment.
• 90% of consumers reported that the treatment they received helped them to deal more effectively with their problems.

Substance Abuse - recent ADAMH studies show that:

• Approximately 75% of adults receiving alcohol and other drug treatment showed improvement in the majority of the problem areas (4 out of 7): health, employment, alcohol use, drug use, family/social relationships, criminal justice, and psychiatric problems.
• Approximately 67% of youth showed improvement in 2 of the following areas: problem reduction, level of functioning, and hopefulness.
• The improvement in employment, substance use, legal, family/social, and psychological and medical problems was significant after clients left treatment.
• There was an improvement in working days—clients improved from less than 9 days to almost 11 paid working days during one month.
• 88% of adults and 92% of youth reported that the treatment they received helped them to deal more effectively with their problems.

Did you know...

• One in four Americans, an estimated 250,000 Franklin County residents, struggles with a treatable Mental Illness or Addiction.
• Each year, more than 250,000 Ohioans are treated in the publicaly funded mental health system, and about 80,000 Ohioans receive substance abuse treatment.
• The average cost of effective treatment per year is more than $14,000 cheaper than incarceration.

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